The case of Lisandra P.
By: Hélène Grémillon ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Alison, translator
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780143126584
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fiction; Family secrets; Murder; Investigation; History
Work titles: Garçonnière
Description: The acclaimed author of The Confidant returns with a gripping psychological novel for fans of The Girl on the Train and The Silent Wife about a wife's secrets, a husband accused of murder, and a marriage gone terribly wrong. Buenos Aires, 1987. When a beautiful young woman named Lisandra is found dead at the foot of a six-story building, her husband, a psychoanalyst, is immediately arrested for her murder. Convinced of Vittorio's innocence, one of his patients, Eva Maria, is drawn into the investigation seemingly by chance. As she combs through secret recordings of Vittorio's therapy sessions in search of the killer--could it be the powerful government figure? the jealous woman? the musician who's lost his reason to live?--Eva Maria must confront her most painful memories, and some of the darkest moments in Argentinian history. In breathless prose that captures the desperate spinning of a frantic mind, Hélène Grémillon blurs the lines of past and present, personal and political, reality and paranoia in this daring and compulsively readable novel.
Notes: "Originally published in French as La garconniere by Flammarion, Paris" -- Title page verso.